A video of the long-awaited Adventure Update for Minecraft was shown at PAX, showing off improved graphics and some cool new gameplay features. The video shows off some incredibly deep dungeons with some ancient ruins hidden in their depths.

The video is of Notch himself playing Minecraft. At just under 18 minutes into the video, Notch said he and his team will release version 1.8 “as soon as we can,” but noted “We haven’t because there’s so much we need to clean up.”

He added they may do “partial updates” to get it out faster, since with each of the new features “All these things take time to finish.”

There will also be villages, which as seen at the 19 minute mark in the video. Notch says “there’s usually a village near your spawn, but they can be a bit difficult to find.”

Check out the video below:

(UPDATE) Notch took some time to go over the new features. The video, posted Aug. 28, is below:

After watching this video all you guys want to do is criticize the video quality (or the camera quality rather) of the first video…..

This update is going to be insanely amazing. I thought he would show off the NPCs in the village, they might not be done? I cannot wait to see what is going to happen with the leveling and skill points system.

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